Nehemia 13:9

13:9 Then I gave instructions that the storerooms should be purified, and I brought back the equipment ¹  of the temple of God, along with the grain offering and the incense.

Nehemia 2:9

2:9 Then I went to the governors of Trans-Euphrates, and I presented to them the letters from the king. The king had sent with me officers of the army and horsemen.

Nehemia 13:19

13:19 When the evening shadows ²  began to fall on the gates of Jerusalem before the Sabbath, I ordered ³  the doors to be closed. I further directed that they were not to be opened until after the Sabbath. I positioned ⁴  some of my young men at the gates so that no load could enter on the Sabbath day.

Nehemia 13:22

13:22 Then I directed the Levites to purify themselves and come and guard the gates in order to keep the Sabbath day holy.

For this please remember me, O my God, and have pity on me in keeping with your great love.

Nehemia 12:31

12:31 I brought the leaders of Judah up on top of the wall, and I appointed two large choirs to give thanks. One was to proceed ⁵  on the top of the wall southward toward the Dung Gate.

Nehemia 6:3

6:3 So I sent messengers to them saying, “I am engaged in ⁶  an important work, and I am unable to come down. Why should the work come to a halt when I leave it to come down to you?”

Nehemia 12:24

12:24 And the leaders of the Levites were Hashabiah, Sherebiah, Jeshua son of Kadmiel, and their colleagues, who stood opposite them to offer praise and thanks, one contingent corresponding to the other, as specified by ⁷  David the man of God.

Nehemia 12:36

12:36 and his colleagues – Shemaiah, Azarel, Milalai, Gilalai, Maai, Nethanel, Judah, and Hanani – with musical instruments of ⁸  David the man of God. (Ezra the scribe led them.) ⁹ 

Nehemia 11:36

11:36 Some of the Judean divisions of the Levites settled in Benjamin.

Nehemia 9:15

9:15 You provided bread from heaven for them in their time of hunger, and you brought forth water from the rock for them in their time of thirst. You told them to enter in order to possess the land that you had sworn ¹⁰  to give them.

Nehemia 13:25

13:25 So I entered a complaint with them. I called down a curse on them, and I struck some of the men and pulled out their hair. I had them swear by God saying, “You will not marry off ¹¹  your daughters to their sons, and you will not take any of their daughters as wives for your sons or for yourselves!

Nehemia 6:5

6:5 The fifth time that Sanballat sent his assistant to me in this way, he had an open letter in his hand.

Nehemia 8:14

8:14 They discovered written in the law that the LORD had commanded through ¹²  Moses that the Israelites should live in temporary shelters during the festival of the seventh month,

Nehemia 6:4

6:4 They contacted ¹³  me four times in this way, and I responded the same way each time. ¹⁴ 

Nehemia 6:8

6:8 I sent word back to him, “We are not engaged in these activities you are describing. ¹⁵  All of this is a figment of your imagination.” ¹⁶ 

Nehemia 7:1

7:1 When the wall had been rebuilt and I had positioned the doors, and the gatekeepers, the singers, and the Levites had been appointed,

Nehemia 8:11

8:11 Then the Levites quieted all the people saying, “Be quiet, for this day is holy. Do not grieve.”

Nehemia 5:12

5:12 They replied, “We will return these things, ¹⁷  and we will no longer demand anything from them. We will do just as you say.” Then I called the priests and made the wealthy and the officials ¹⁸  swear to do what had been promised. ¹⁹ 

Nehemia 2:6

2:6 Then the king, with his consort ²⁰  sitting beside him, replied, “How long would your trip take, and when would you return?” Since the king was amenable to dispatching me, ²¹  I gave him a time.

Nehemia 6:2

6:2 Sanballat and Geshem sent word to me saying, “Come on! Let’s set up a time to meet together at Kephirim ²²  in the plain of Ono.” Now they intended to do me harm.

Nehemia 6:12

6:12 I recognized the fact that God had not sent him, for he had spoken the prophecy against me as a hired agent of Tobiah and Sanballat. ²³ 

Nehemia 7:2

7:2 I then put in charge over Jerusalem ²⁴  my brother Hanani and Hananiah ²⁵  the chief of the citadel, for he was a faithful man and feared God more than many do.

Nehemia 8:15

8:15 and that they should make a proclamation and disseminate this message ²⁶  in all their cities and in Jerusalem: ²⁷  “Go to the hill country and bring back olive branches and branches of wild olive trees, myrtle trees, date palms, and other leafy trees to construct temporary shelters, as it is written.”

Nehemia 7:65

7:65 The governor ²⁸  instructed them not to eat any of the sacred food until there was a priest who could consult ²⁹  the Urim and Thummim.

Nehemia 10:1

10:1 On the sealed documents were the following names: ³⁰ 

Nehemiah the governor, son of Hacaliah, along with Zedekiah,

Nehemia 2:5

2:5 and said to the king, “If the king is so inclined ³¹  and if your servant has found favor in your sight, dispatch me to Judah, to the city with the graves of my ancestors, so that I can rebuild it.”

Nehemia 4:22

4:22 At that time I instructed ³²  the people, “Let every man and his coworker spend the night in Jerusalem and let them be guards for us by night and workers by day.

Nehemia 9:20

9:20 You imparted your good Spirit to instruct them. You did not withhold your manna from their mouths; you provided water for their thirst.

Nehemia 9:23

9:23 You multiplied their descendants like the stars of the sky. You brought them to the land you had told their ancestors to enter in order to possess.

Nehemia 9:38

The People Pledge to be Faithful

9:38 (10:1) ³³  “Because of all of this we are entering into a binding covenant ³⁴  in written form; ³⁵  our leaders, our Levites, and our priests have affixed their names ³⁶  on the sealed document.”

Nehemia 13:11

13:11 So I registered a complaint with the leaders, asking “Why is the temple of God neglected?” Then I gathered them and reassigned them to their positions. ³⁷ 

Nehemia 7:5

7:5 My God placed it on my heart to gather the leaders, ³⁸  the officials, and the ordinary people so they could be enrolled on the basis of genealogy. I found the genealogical records ³⁹  of those who had formerly returned. Here is what I found written in that record: ⁴⁰ 

Nehemia 9:26

9:26 “Nonetheless they grew disobedient and rebelled against you; they disregarded your law. ⁴¹  They killed your prophets who had solemnly admonished them in order to cause them to return to you. They committed atrocious blasphemies.

Nehemia 8:1

8:1 all the people gathered together ⁴²  in the plaza which was in front of the Water Gate. They asked ⁴³  Ezra the scribe to bring the book of the law of Moses which the LORD had commanded Israel.

Nehemia 13:5

13:5 He made for himself a large storeroom where previously they had been keeping ⁴⁴  the grain offering, the incense, and the vessels, along with the tithes of the grain, the new wine, and the olive oil as commanded for the Levites, the singers, the gate keepers, and the offering for the priests.

[13:9]  ¹ tn On the usage of this Hebrew word see HALOT 478-79 s.v. כְּלִי.

[13:19]  ² tn Heb “the gates of Jerusalem grew dark.”

[13:19]  ³ tn Heb “said” (so also in v. 22).

[13:19]  ⁴ tn Heb “caused to stand.”

[12:31]  ⁵ tc The translation reads וְהָאַחַת הֹלֶכֶת (vÿha’akhat holekhet, “and one was proceeding”) rather than the MT reading וְתַהֲלֻכֹת (vÿtahalukhot, “and processions”).

[6:3]  ⁶ tn Heb “[am] doing.”

[12:24]  ⁷ tn Heb “in [accord with] the commandment of.”

[12:36]  ⁸ tn Or “prescribed by” (NIV, NLT); TEV “of the kind played by.” The precise relationship of these musical instruments to David is not clear.

[12:36]  ⁹ tn Heb “was before them.”

[9:15]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “had lifted your hand.”

[13:25]  ¹¹ tn Heb “give.”

[8:14]  ¹² tn Heb “by the hand of.”

[6:4]  ¹³ tn Heb “sent to.”

[6:4]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “and I answered them according to this word.”

[6:8]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “We are not according to these matters that you are saying.”

[6:8]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “For from your heart you are inventing them.”

[5:12]  ¹⁷ tn The words “these things” are not included in the Hebrew text, but have been supplied in the translation for clarity.

[5:12]  ¹⁸ tn Heb “took an oath from them”; the referents (the wealthy and the officials, cf. v. 7) have been specified in the translation for clarity.

[5:12]  ¹⁹ tn Heb “according to this word.”

[2:6]  ²⁰ tn Or “queen,” so most English versions (cf. HALOT 1415 s.v. שֵׁגַל); TEV “empress.”

[2:6]  ²¹ tn Heb “It was good before the king and he sent me.”

[6:2]  ²² tn It is not entirely clear whether the Hebrew word כְּפִירִים (kÿfirim) is a place-name not mentioned elsewhere in the OT (as indicated in the present translation; so also NAB, NASB) or whether it means “in [one of] the villages” (so, e.g., NIV, NRSV, NLT; see BDB 499 s.v.; HALOT 493 s.v.). The LXX and Vulgate understand it in the latter sense. Some scholars connect this term with the identically spelled word כּפירים (“lions”) as a figurative description of princes or warriors (e.g., Pss 34:11; 35:17; 58:7; Jer 2:15; Ezek 32:2, 13; Nah 2:14; see HALOT 493 s.v.): “let us meet together with the leaders in the plain of Ono.”

[6:12]  ²³ tn Heb “and Tobiah and Sanballat had hired him.”

[7:2]  ²⁴ map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.

[7:2]  ²⁵ tn Some have suggested that “Hananiah” is another name for Hanani, Nehemiah’s brother, so that only one individual is mentioned here. However, the third person plural in v. 3 indicates two people are in view.

[8:15]  ²⁶ tn Heb “a voice.”

[8:15]  ²⁷ map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.

[7:65]  ²⁸ tn The Hebrew term תִּרְשָׁתָא (tirshata’; KJV “Tirshatha”) is the official title of a Persian governor in Judea. In meaning it may be similar to “excellency” (cf. NAB). See further BDB 1077 s.v.; W. L. Holladay, Concise Hebrew and Aramaic Lexicon, 395; HALOT 1798 s.v.

[7:65]  ²⁹ tn Heb “stood.”

[10:1]  ³⁰ tn The words “were the following names” are not in the Hebrew text but have been supplied in the translation for clarity. Cf. vv. 9, 10, 14.

[2:5]  ³¹ tn Heb “If upon the king it is good.” So also in v. 7.

[4:22]  ³² tn Heb “said [to].”

[9:38]  ³³ sn Beginning with 9:38, the verse numbers through 10:39 in the English Bible differ from the verse numbers in the Hebrew text (BHS), with 9:38 ET = 10:1 HT, 10:1 ET = 10:2 HT, 10:2 ET = 10:3 HT, etc., through 10:39 ET = 10:40 HT. Beginning with 11:1 the verse numbers in the ET and HT are again the same.

[9:38]  ³⁴ tn Heb “we are cutting.”

[9:38]  ³⁵ tn Heb “and writing.”

[9:38]  ³⁶ tn Heb “our leaders, our Levites, and our priests on the sealed document.” The Hebrew text is elliptical here; the words “have affixed their names” are supplied in the translation for clarity and for stylistic reasons. Cf. v. 2.

[13:11]  ³⁷ tn Heb “and I stood them on their standing.”

[7:5]  ³⁸ tn Heb “nobles”; NCV “important men.”

[7:5]  ³⁹ tn Heb “the book of genealogy.”

[7:5]  ⁴⁰ tn Heb “in it”; the referent (the genealogical record) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[9:26]  ⁴¹ tn Heb “they cast your law behind their backs.”

[8:1]  ⁴² tn Heb “like one man.”

[8:1]  ⁴³ tn Heb “said [to].”

[13:5]  ⁴⁴ tn Heb “giving.”